Bill Kristol, putting both Mitt Romney's gripe about 47% of Americans, as well as Barack Obama's 2008 snark about religion and gun-owning, into context.
So we have in 2012 two presidential candidates who—when they thought they were speaking privately to their fellow 1 percenters—have shown contempt for fellow Americans.
My guess is that the dynamic will fuel independents' already formidable cynicism and, thus, depress turnout among the unaffiliated.
